Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have broken all Harvard records for ice-cream consumption by eating eighteen dishes after dinner stop Having just consumed forty small dishes equalling twenty large dishes of ice-cream directly after dinner I consider myself worthy of defending Princeton's honor by challenging you to an ice-cream consumption duel after the Harvard-Princeton football game next Saturday stop Since I am not a runner I suggest we play eighteen holes of golf before breakfast next morning stop Princeton hopes Harvard's ice-cream champion will not get cold feet." (Signed) Paul Vermont Tector...
Strategy in yacht racing is for the boat that is losing to change her tactics. In the last half of the first leg of the first race last week, Sopwith started a tacking duel in the hope that better handling on Endeavour would reduce Ranger's lead. If anything, Ranger's tacks were executed a shade more smartly. She rounded the mark with a six-minute lead...
Opening of the story is a falsified military report by the narrator, a French officer, concerning the death of Lieutenant De Queslain in a duel with a Serbian captain. The rest of the story, told by De Queslain to the narrator the night before his death, unravels the real story behind the duel...
...pillagers. He did his best to follow instructions, got cut off every time only because he was not thoroughgoing enough. Once they passed a Serbian prisoner who spotted part of De Queslain's French uniform. This was the Serbian captain who later challenged him to a duel because he had supposed De Queslain had joined the Albanians in their looting. After an interminable amount of this bloodcurdling kind of business, De Queslain and Lena found a protected spot. But at the moment when he might have escaped, De Queslain was seized with a frenzy like the Albanians . Overpowering Lena...
...Verona, Italy, Domenico Pinterle and Luigi Martini decided to duel, respectively selected a spade, a pickax...